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Computer keeps freezing - hardware problem

Jack W-H

Posted 22 February 2008 - 01:37 PM

Jack W-H

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Hey!

WAHOOO!

IT'S FIXED! JOY!

Basically, I called up PC Performance who told me loads of stuff I already knew, I told them all the scans I'd done. They got me to run a Hard Disk scanning program, which returned no problems, so I called back and they said backup EVERYTHING and do a total system restore, format hard drive, start again from scratch...

So I did. And hey presto!

It works. I guess something in Windows got corrupted. That's my unknowledgeful guess. Well at least I think it works, or at least it hasn't crashed once in 3 days, even after being left on overnight etc...

YAY!

You guys are the best! Thanks SOOO! much for your help, I know we didn't specifically find the problem in the end (I guess it was software related, a corrupted operating system perhaps?), but I'm gonna thank you for giving up so much free time and effort to help me, just some teenager with a computer issue, but you guys were there to help, it's so good that people like you are here, blah blah blah, let's have a toast...

Truth is I'd donate but, in case you hadn't already guessed by my mentioning of GCSE courswork that I'm kind of below typical credit-card age - so I hope my gift of eternal glory will suffice!